Taking Back Our Lives in the Age of Corporate Dominance

Introduction

Suzanne Stoddard

a snapshot of the pressures and potentialitiesof our consuming corporate times

The lust for comfort murders the passion of thesoul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

—Kahlil Gibran

 

THIS BOOK IS FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO FIND OUT WHO THEY ARE and what they are going to do about it while they still have time.

If we lived in a healthier culture, a book like this wouldn’t be necessary. In a saner society, all of us would have an opportunity to contribute in ways that reflected our unique talents, and we would take much better care of each other. We would allow plenty of time to dance, to make music, to create, to play, and to revel in being human. We would spend most of our time doing what makes us feel alive and ...